Asil Nadir Former Rutland Home Burley on The Hill Photographs 2012
Asil Nadir handed out donations to many of his good causes including the Tory Party, Lord McAlpine said it would be morally wrong for the party to keep the money - donated between 1985 and 1990 - in the wake of Nadir's theft convictions.
I wonder if he donated to the local Tory Party? If he did they can't pay it back because they're broke
and have little understanding of morales.
Asil Nadir purchased this rather splendid home form Joss Hanbury, Joss Hanbury later bought the property back when Nadir fled the country.
The home was later converted into affordable flats. well for those who had a spare £1 million or a
large mortgage. Now they might set you back nearly £2 million
I think the estate has shrunk over the years, the A606 Stamford Road cuts through a avenue of trees
which now ends at the at the shore of Rutland Water. I wonder if there was ever a set of gates as fine
as those at the front at the end of the avenue looking at Google earth it looks as if there is now just a wall at a roadside.
many of the flats have wonderful views of Rutland Water
The mansion in the village overlooks Rutland Water. The house in the manner associated with Sir Christopher Wren, was built in the 1690s[5] by the 2nd Earl of Nottingham, who was to a large extent his own architect and involved himself in the minutiae of construction, but employed Henry Dormer (died 1727) to supervise its building. Nottingham replaced Dormer with John Lumley in 1697.[6] Before embarking on the project, Lord Nottingham consulted Sir Christopher Wren and had measurements taken at Berkeley House and Montagu House in London.[7] The house, in an H-plan, has a pedimented central block and lightly projecting end pavilions. With its symmetrical wings and outbuildings forming a cour d'honneur, and segmental walling linking matching blocks in a larger outer grassed court, it forms one of the most ambitious aristocratic ensembles of the late seventeenth century.
A dining room was designed for the 8th Earl of Winchilsea, and installed in 1778.[8]
In 1908, a fire broke out during a party attended by Winston Churchill, destroying the west part of the house.
The mansion was converted into 6 dwelling by Kit Martin, 1993-8, with a further 22 dwellings on the estate. Previously the estate had been purchased by Asil Nadir in 1991. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burley,_Rutland
